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Enterprise-wide project portfolio management and strategic planning - your best weapon for success. Key Feature includes the new Theory of Constraints 4x4 method of strategic planning and the Critical Chain Multi-Project Management approach.

Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO is the most comprehensive book currently published on the topic of Project/Program Management Office (PMO) and sets a new standard for PMO development.

The authors, Gerald Kendall and Steve Rollins, show you how to turn your PMO into a value machine. Describing the missing link between executive strategy and project management, the book provides a detailed implementation plan for both strategic planning and a PMO that gives you measurable results in weeks, without false starts and missteps. It outlines a road map to unprecedented project management improvement. The authors delineate four processes that get a PMO off the ground much faster, driving bottom-line value almost immediately.

Discusses how the PMO can effectively influence project teams and their team members to consistently seek out delivery acceleration opportunities and/or delivery threats relative to their work and the overall mission of the project team

Provides a detailed plan for both strategic planning and a PMO

Reviews the most popular EPM tools and provides a way to evaluate PMO implementation using a PMO Maturity Model

Illustrates how Six Sigma and the PMO can support each other and be used to drive bottom-line value

Includes real PMO case studies detailing techniques that have helped businesses grow and kept them at the top in their industry

Presents the new Theory of Constraints 4x4 method of strategic planning and the Critical Chain Multi-Project Management approach

Offers downloadable templates, models, assessment tools, and plans, including a detailed plan using Microsoft Project for implementing a PMO that covers the first two years of operation and details over 450 tasks — available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com.

Contents

SETTING THE STAGE FOR A SUCCESSFUL PMO IMPLEMENTATIONIntroduction – Building a PMO That Executives Embrace